"A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts."

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Source : The Elements of Style ch. 2 (1918)

William Strunk, Jr.

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“Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.”
“To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.”

Source : Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”
“I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.”
“The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.”

Source : Reginald Horace Blyth (1995). “The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen”
“What are you doing?" he breathed. "You're going around, stirring up everything." "I've got time on my hands," I shot back, just as breathless, "since I dumped my asshat boyfriend." He growled, fiercely passionate, his hand in my hair pulling so tightly it pained me. "You can't make this up with a kiss or a f*ck, Gideon. Not this time." Gideon & Eva”
“I am sure that hon. members will realize that I am not drawing on my imagination when I state that last fall there were children going to school in Saskatchewan with only sacking wrapped around their feet. We have gone into homes and found mothers and children lying on piles of bedding in the corner; they did not have the proper bedding equipment or the proper clothing to meet the rigours of a very cold winter.”
“My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.”
“O God, do not leave me. I have done nothing good in Your sight, but according to Your goodness, let me now make a beginning of good.”

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